Love the Mosin Nagant rifles, especially the M44. Many haters say they are inaccurate junk! But I just love the FIREBALL that explodes from this mini artillery piece. Enjoying it five rounds at a time with the bolt-action reload pause just gets you primed for that next FIREBALL! Plus, to be the first one that fired that rifle; crated and gunked with cosmoline decades ago, was a pretty cool!
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I have a bolt action J.C. Higgins 12 ga from 1948. It was my first 12ga. They were all recalled because there are instances where the bolt would not lock and when fired, the bolt would recoil back. However, if you saw the design of the gun, it is obvious that this could only happen if the gun is fired without the bolt handle being down in battery. The action is so smooth, that my personal belief is that people were cycling them too fast to "show off" and lit one off out of battery.
Mine has been fine. I paid $60 for it at an Ace in Grand Rapids in 1991. It took a couple of deer with slugs...full choke, foster slugs. Accurate enough for 50 yard shots, no problem. The stock had been modified (not well) several times in the past, so when I happened to find that Boyd's gunstocks sold a walnut, 80% finished stock for $85, I jumped on it....yes, worth more than the gun, finished. I have finished the stock and it fits and looks great, but I still have yet to finish the reblue.
This is one like mine, but a pic pulled off the internet:
Any old Rem 870 or MB 500 is a much better gun, but neither of them were my first 12 ga...but I don't fire it much anymore.
Mine has been fine. I paid $60 for it at an Ace in Grand Rapids in 1991. It took a couple of deer with slugs...full choke, foster slugs. Accurate enough for 50 yard shots, no problem. The stock had been modified (not well) several times in the past, so when I happened to find that Boyd's gunstocks sold a walnut, 80% finished stock for $85, I jumped on it....yes, worth more than the gun, finished. I have finished the stock and it fits and looks great, but I still have yet to finish the reblue.
This is one like mine, but a pic pulled off the internet:
Any old Rem 870 or MB 500 is a much better gun, but neither of them were my first 12 ga...but I don't fire it much anymore.
So I took a Walther PPX and a Sig MCX with a EOtech and a single point sling to a Larry Vickers class.
I was one of his “favorites“ just like ditcherman and Nad63 among other INGO members present.
Btw the PPX is ugly as sin but has a sweet trigger and accurate as $()&’.
I was one of his “favorites“ just like ditcherman and Nad63 among other INGO members present.
Btw the PPX is ugly as sin but has a sweet trigger and accurate as $()&’.
Maximinus Thrax
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Sig Sauer P250C in 9mm
Carried it for a while but its duty now is as a trigger trainer. Run a couple of mags through that thing and you've either learned how to have a smooth trigger pull or you've tossed the gun down range. No one has tossed it down range yet!
Carried it for a while but its duty now is as a trigger trainer. Run a couple of mags through that thing and you've either learned how to have a smooth trigger pull or you've tossed the gun down range. No one has tossed it down range yet!
I have a bolt action J.C. Higgins 12 ga from 1948. It was my first 12ga. They were all recalled because there are instances where the bolt would not lock and when fired, the bolt would recoil back. However, if you saw the design of the gun, it is obvious that this could only happen if the gun is fired without the bolt handle being down in battery. The action is so smooth, that my personal belief is that people were cycling them too fast to "show off" and lit one off out of battery.
Mine has been fine. I paid $60 for it at an Ace in Grand Rapids in 1991. It took a couple of deer with slugs...full choke, foster slugs. Accurate enough for 50 yard shots, no problem. The stock had been modified (not well) several times in the past, so when I happened to find that Boyd's gunstocks sold a walnut, 80% finished stock for $85, I jumped on it....yes, worth more than the gun, finished. I have finished the stock and it fits and looks great, but I still have yet to finish the reblue.
This is one like mine, but a pic pulled off the internet:
Any old Rem 870 or MB 500 is a much better gun, but neither of them were my first 12 ga...but I don't fire it much anymore.
IIRC these were made by Savage and are a good sturdy gun. The later Sears 12ga had bolt issues where they would buy the bolt back from you, it started at $125 and gradually went down to 'store credit'.
These are good old guns and I find them in 12 and 16ga quite frequently.
i'm getting a 2nd one to do the mta bullpup conversion on
Jaybird1980
Grandmaster
The High Tower?
Haha love it. That thing cost about $220 more than I have in my whole rifle.
i was going after a .45 a guy in bloomington was selling for $100 but he never gave me a time to meet up. the stock was cracked but i only wanted the action.
I have the .410 version. Uncles used it for squirrel, but I never took to shotguns for squirrel.
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+1 mini 30
Easy - the lowly WASR. Equally despised by fudds, AR snobs, and even a lot of fellow AK guys. Thankfully, its reputation has turned a corner over the last few years. I've had several WASRs, including fixed and folding stock versions, commercial 10 and surplus 10/63 versions, as well as older (rougher) imports and modern (2014+) imports with more attentive QC. Say what you will about the WASR, and a lot already have, but these are terrific guns. They may not be as smooth as a milled Bulgarian SAM, as modern as a Russian 100-series, or as rare as an East German MPi-KM, but at the end of the day, the lowly WASR will do anything a $2,000+ AK variant can do.
Here's my highest round-count WASR-10, which has introduced dozens of new shooters and old shooters who are new to the Kalashnikov family. It has seen more configurations than I can keep count, has been used and abused and failed to clean for thousands of rounds, and still goes "bang" every time I pull the trigger, still giving me fist-sized groups at 100 yards. It's a basic, reliable, familiar AK.
I love this gun.
Here's my highest round-count WASR-10, which has introduced dozens of new shooters and old shooters who are new to the Kalashnikov family. It has seen more configurations than I can keep count, has been used and abused and failed to clean for thousands of rounds, and still goes "bang" every time I pull the trigger, still giving me fist-sized groups at 100 yards. It's a basic, reliable, familiar AK.
I love this gun.
I used to take my NEF .410 and my Marlin 60 out for small game and use whatever seemed appropriate based on how much movement there was.
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